News and Opportunities Compiled for Musicians, Songwriters and Music Professionals by Sandy Serge

Music Morsels encourages all of you with opportunities for musicians to email your press releases to MusMorsels@aol.com for possible inclusion in this column. This column will be featured monthly. Deadline for inclusion is the 25th of the month for the upcoming issue.

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Organizers have announced that the 11th
Annual More Than Music Festival will take place in Columbus, Ohio on July
11th and 12th, 2003. The event will be held at The Factory, a prestigious
multi-stage/multi-room venue that will allow the hosting of music, art,
film, and speaker/discussion led panels and workshops. For more info,
contact Peter Bottomley of Skyscraper Media at 303-544-9858
or peter@skyscrapermedia.net.
www.morethanmusic.org
www.factorycolumbus.com
www.skyscrapermedia.net

MBA Production Music Library
www.mbamusic.com
Help Wanted
Freelance sales reps: if you have contacts in the industry that use stock music... we'll pay you commission. Email mark@mbamusic.com for more details. Visit our homepage at www.mbamusic.com

New book release - The book is entitled, "IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION - A Beginner's Guide To Starting A Record Label" (3rd Edition) by Samuel D. Gilleylen; ISBN 0972304207; LCCN 2002093492; 70pp Trade Paperback; $24.99 Retail; © 2003 Future Mix Publications, P.O. Box 181356, Memphis, TN 38181; Fax (901) 428-6610. The book has received favorable reviews from Midwest Book Reviews, Muses Muse (the most popular online songwriter's ezine), and HitSquad online musicians' website. Other parties who have shown recent interest in this book include: Disc Makers CD Duplication Company, Recording Magazine, MENC, Performer Magazine and Collegebound Magazine. The San Diego Public Library system has even put this book into circulation. Baker and Taylor is our wholesaler and Unique Books have approached us for a distribution agreement. This book can also be purchased online at http://www.futuremix.biz.

Attn:**Female Artists/Bands**
Calling all chick bands and solo artists!!! We have started a promotion with
a new clothing line called SoundGirl. These people are WAAAAYYYY into music and
are looking to feature/promote/sponsor Female-fronted bands, chick solo artists
and so on. It's OK if there are boys in the band, but boys can't BE the band.
Visit gigamerica.com for more info.

Wampus Multimedia has postponed the deadline for submissions to its Warren Zevon
tribute to November 30.

Following the label's other tribute CDs, If I Were a Richman: a Tribute to the
Music of Jonathan Richman (2001), and After Hours: a Tribute to the Music of Lou
Reed (April 2003), the compilation will feature selections from throughout
Zevon's reign as rock's most acerbic troubadour and cynical romantic. Wampus
will donate one dollar from the sale of each Zevon CD to the American Cancer
Society. Want to submit? Find out how: http://wampus.com/warren.html

Here's a brilliant alternative to framing a CD and hanging it on your wall. It's a product that lets you display your CD, along with your CD cover, like a trophy. Now people can show off their favorite CD by displaying it on a bookcase, dresser, mantle, or desktop. When an artist completes a CD project, it is important for that artist to take at least one CD and display it in order to celebrate his or her accomplishment. When a music fan gets an autographed CD, that CD is no longer just a CD, it is a piece of the fan's history and there should be an easy way to display that CD without having to frame it. Visit CDstands.com for more info.

2003 CALL TO ARTS!
EXPO, CONFERENCE AND FESTIVAL
April 19th @ Cal State Northridge 10am to 8pm
Presented by Artists Helping Artists (AHA!)
and The Creative Line magazine
www.CallToArts.ArtistsHelpingArtists.org
email: info@artistshelpingartists.org